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How Computers Have Changed the Wage Structure : Evidence From Microdata, 1984-1989

Krueger, Alan B. - 1991

This paper examines whether employees who use a computer at work earn a higher wage rate than otherwise similar workers who do not use a computer at work. The analysis primarily relies on data from the Current Population Survey and the High School and Beyond Survey. A variety of statistical...

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Job Queues and Wages : New Evidence on the Minimum Wage and Inter-Industry Wage Structure

Holzer, Harry J. - 1988

This paper uses job applications- data to test the existence of non-competitive, ex-ante rents in the labor market. We first examine whether jobs that pay the legal minimum wage face an excessively of labor as measured by the number of job applications received for the most recent positions...

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Further Evidence on the Global Decline in the Mental Health of the Young

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex; Lepinteur, Anthony; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden called, Come-Here, for 2020-2023, plus data from International Social Survey Program … more time daily in front of a screen on the internet or their smartphone, and that within-person increases in poor mental … mental health, and because the results caution against simply using the presence of the internet in the household, or low …

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Unions Increase Job Satisfaction in the United States

Artz, Benjamin; Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We revisit the well-known negative association between union coverage and individuals' job satisfaction in the United States, first identified over forty years ago. We find the association has flipped since the Great Recession such that union workers are now more satisfied than their non-union...

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Efficiency Wages and the Wage Structure

Krueger, Alan B. - 1986

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Computing Inequality : Have Computers Changed the Labor Market?

Autor, David H. - 1997

This paper examines the effect of technological change and other factors on the relative demand for workers with different education levels and on the recent growth of U.S. educational wage differentials. A simple supply-demand framework is used to interpret changes in the relative quantities,...

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A Comparison of Changes in the Structure of Wages

Katz, Lawrence F. - 1993

This paper compares changes in the structure of wages in France, Great Britain, Japan. and the United States over the last twenty years. Wage differentials by education and occupation (skill differentials) narrowed substantially in all four countries in the 1970s. Overall wage inequality and...

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School Quality and Black-White Relative Earnings : A Direct Assessment

Card, David - 1991

The average wage differential between black and white men fell from 40 percent in 1960 to 25 percent in 1980. Much of this convergence is attributable to a relative increase in the rate of return to schooling among black workers. It is widely argued that the growth in the relative return to...

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Changes in the Structure of Wages in the Public and Private Sectors

Katz, Lawrence F. - 1991

The wage structure in the U.S. public sector responded sluggishly to substantial changes in private sector wages during the 1970s and 1980s. Despite a large expansion in the college/high school wage differential during the 1980s in the private sector, the public sector college wage premium...

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Disruptive Change in the Taxi Business : The Case of Uber

Cramer, Judd - 2016

services such as Uber and Lyft, which use modern internet-based mobile technology to connect passengers and drivers, have begun …

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